Transform and Roll Out!...west; out west to Pasadena California for BotCon 2011.

This week's episode of the Twincast has your host Counterpunch and his pals Tigertracks24, Razorclaw0000, and Robofreak covering the past week's breaking toy news as well as discussions on BotCon 2011.

Thrills and chills await the eager listener as...

Counterpunch wills an Alternity Backstop into existence!Razorclaw and King Bolt run off together behind Robofreaks back!The ghosts of BotCons past teach Tigertracks the true meaning of BotCon!...and a special report from Seibertron's own fortress of solitude is made...

2. I had sound problems on my end so I was on mute a lot. CP helped me out by giving a call out so I could unmute and speak up. It was either that or ruin the recording with the sound of an AC unit blowing the entire time.

Burn wrote:robofreak doesn't joke. He's all about the serious business of the internet.

ItIsHim wrote:My closet is filled to the brim with plastic children's toys. For myself

I'm of one of those who's a bit disappointed by the toy-accurate colors on the show-accurately molded MP Rodimus Prime toy that Hasbro is releasing, and I get that there are those who want to have a enough differentiation between the two to want to get both, and that's fine. But there are those, like me, who do not have the money to get both, and only want one definitive version so that there is no need to get a second version when the perfect one has already been bought. That said, should I ever get any version of the MP Rodimus Prime toy, I'd wait and get the second run of the Takara one with its improved quality control, or not at all. Masterpieces are already expensive as they are (even the Hasbro ones), so getting duplicates of the same MP mold is just out of the question for someone in my position.

I think what would be really cool would be if someone were to take the head of Kre-O Optimus Prime and use it to replace the head of Diablock Convoy, so as to have a fully transformable LEGO-esque Transformer with a really nice head to go with it.

Oh. Did not know that about Minerva's antennae being made by the instructor himself instead of Hasbro. Still kinda sad about missing out on it, though. I love both Animated and Masterforce to death, so to me this figure thus looks really really nice.

Oh, DUDE! That would be so AWESOME if SG Thundercracker glowed in the dark! Didn't get the figure, but that would still rock!

Thundercraker has a red Con symbol. I held him at BotCon, but was kinda sad that he wasn't like last year's Slice, who could be both Slicer and SG Wheeljack due to having both purple Bot and Con symbols. Sadly, Thundercracker is only his SG self.

Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'

Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'

the last pic with the BW and TFA Waspinator, what is it? Botcon exclusive or a promotion for possibly more production of those lines? I SOOOOOOO wish TFA would come back at least to finish off some of the figs we never got.

HoosierDaddy wrote:the last pic with the BW and TFA Waspinator, what is it? Botcon exclusive or a promotion for possibly more production of those lines? I SOOOOOOO wish TFA would come back at least to finish off some of the figs we never got.

Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'

Another way Ryan could of described me is the guy with the growing pattern gray spot.

When eating planets alone isn't enough to satisfy the Chaos Bringer's hunger, Unicron comes to Earth to fill up on McDonald's. McDonald's golden arches will light our darkest hour (when the Chaos Bringer would not share) by clogging his arteries, raising his blood pressure, and giving him diabetes.

Thanks for the MP Rodimus color description. I know that people are already getting upset with the colors, but I don't think it's something to worry about. Hasbro will probably release it as another version down the road. The targetmaster makes it cool.

iGear stuff looks great. I hope they can pull through! If they are successful - this may turn the corner on TF fandom/collecting.

Regarding the Dino cassettes - I agree with you guys that I don't like the idea that these KOs will be indistinguishable from the originals. They should just make the packaging a little different so the people buying them wouldn't be fooled with thinking that they have bought the originals.

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